The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1887-08-31
A PNTIIITIC SCENE.
Death on u Irnin al u Babc tor which
Its Mother searched >iN Months


Its Mother searched >iN Months
PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Aug IA
half suppressed scream, partly
drowned by the living train, attract
ed the attention OF half dozen passen-
gers in crowded West Jersey lai.-
road train from Atlantic City this
morning. \ brown-eycd woman,
| tar faced and shapely, sat IN the rear
end of the car with "A body in her lap.
The poor little thing was wan and
palc, and seemed "a sping for brea h
with every DIT of the car. Vt New
field the mother arose from her seat.
and procuring glass OF water, -prlnk-
led part Of it in the chi,d's face and
| moistencdh,s lips with the tips of her
fingers a faint smile lowered about
the little mouth, and the cold water
seemed TO revive the babe, for il gave
two or three deep Inspirations, and
| It's thin little hands moving uneasily
before, became still. The smile be
come set and the eyes closed, and n
was then that the mother cried out,
rs she pressed the wasted form TO
her breast and soDbed aloud in her
agony.
A sympathetic woman in the seat
behind leaned forward and said:
"Let me see your child, my dear. Per-
hans il has only tainted aud gently
upturnipg the babes face, she looked
al II, and then out of pure womauly
sympathy began 10 sob TOO.
lit is hart: oh, so hard walled the
pretty mother - she rocked hersct
TO and fro. "lle his been separated
from me for more than six months
, aud OILY 20 him back today, and
noN h is gone from me forever
What have deue to deserve thi
last blow Efforts to comfort III,
stricken women were made by tw,
or three kind hearted matrors, an,
by the time Camden was reached hC
had quoted dewn sufficiently to tel
her story, which was IN many re
: spcc's most remarkable one.
My name,' she said, As she place
the dead baby on the eat beside her
lis Getteu Jersup. | was marie,
4 three years ago last March to Calct
- Icssup, near the town OF Dubuque
$ Iowa. Ny husband is native OF
Melbourne, Australia, and before hl
came ID America he was engaged It
0 be married tO young woman, bu
e broke OIL the match because lie dc
O., tected her flirting with an Elglisl
a officer. As afterwards lcarnC d, I,
my sorrow, this girl was mldly il
love with him and when he cam
: here she followed. lie had iutcndc,
: To settle IA san Francisco, but -h
, ANNOYED him TO such Nh extent thu
ne went TO ST. LOui'
aud from there To "a smal
Z village called Green's Corners, nea
Il Dubuque
10 Of met HIM first ia st. Louis, an
= we were married after years. court
shin. lie told me u OF hi- torme
p lie. and how ne had been la love j
c Ausrrp ia before he saw H.. We rl
moved to Iowa. and tor nearly "a yea
"A we heard nothing OF the woman Wh'
e had followed Lim here. tourtee
n months after our marriage our bah
% -thi, baby and the mo'1or osn
If lovingly over the ljic,e7r cIHy be~Id
4 her. "wa- born don't tank ther
10 were TWO happier p 1pIc ln inc WorI
re than we Nare tor p year auerWnr'
on the ds, the baby Was ~ mont
Old my husband rima home iroi
u Dubuquc nud told me that he hA
~ Boon .thr,l by the glrl tD hHd Hte'
'r md that she hat cra.tCd i'rrib
'h scene whcu .uu learned OF 4.- MARI
T. agp. \ frW dnF, later 300, hh'plW
10 went 10 Dubuque a3o'D Oo' Gnu h'
~ tell me anything i1rtaer when
40 crue home.